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This edition of Ben Kiernan's definitive account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. "Deeply detailed, meticulously reported. . . . Important [and]...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761379Author W.M. ThackstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

"A landmark volume, filled with beautiful renderings of writings from the Guru Granth Sahib."-Simran Jeet Singh, author of The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your LifeAn exquisite new translation of Guru Nanak's verses, illuminating the...

Winner of the Lionel Gelber PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the Year | A Financial Times Book of the Year | A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year | A Washington Post Book of the Year | A Bloomberg News Book of...

In addition to providing excerpts from classic tales of Japan's warrior past, this volume draws on a wide range of lesser-known but revealing sources-including sword inscriptions, edicts, orders, petitions, and letters-to expand and deepen our...

History of Art in Japan is a fully illustrated overview of Japanese art, written by one of Japan's most distinguished art historians. This masterful account of the country's exceptional cultural heritage sheds light on how Japan has nurtured distinctive...

Midnight in Peking is a gripping true murder mystery by Paul FrenchTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'A first-rate murder story, a thrilling narrative. Hurtles along from one cliffhanger to the next' SpectatorPeking, 1937:The teenage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418979Author Johnny RicoFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

In Japan's Best Friend, stunning photographs take readers to religious festivals and shrines that honor dog deities, to the streets of Tokyo where canines are a mainstay of kawaii culture, and inside the doors of cafes that make pup-themed latte art as...

'An enthralling, elegantly written and, ultimately, profoundly alarming history' EconomistA bold new perspective on the history of South Asia, telling its story through its climate, and the long quest to tame its watersSouth Asia's history has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807003619Author Thomas Hitoshi PruiksmaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

This textbook provides a comprehensive scholarly introduction to Classical Chinese and its texts. Classical Chinese is the language of Confucius and Mencius and their contemporaries, who wrote the seminal texts of Chinese philosophy more than 2,000 years...

As a giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from...

This ambitious work has two novel goals: to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, and to connect Southeast Asian to world history. Combining careful local research with wide-ranging theory Lieberman argues that over...

The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan,to American eyes,has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror...

A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594483905Author Martha SherrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of...

A history of the great Mughal rulers of India, one of the world's greatest empires.In December 1525 Babur, the great grandson of the Mongol conqueror Tamberlaine, crossed the Indus river into the Punjab with a modest army and some cannon. At the battle...

'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred Elfstrom Tracing the history of left-wing, subversive and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356294141Author Arup Kumar DuttaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 487gDimensions(mm)...

Featuring full-color photographs and illustrations thoughout, this book presents a comprehensive guide to Japanese culture.The richness of Japan's history is renowned worldwide, and the cultural heritage that its society has produced and handed down to...

In the sphere of future global politics, no region will be as hotly contested as the Asia-Pacific, where great power interests collide amid the mistrust of unresolved conflicts and disputed territory. This is where authoritarian China is trying to...

Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892132942Author Michael A. CremoFormat HardbackPage Count 914Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book TrustWeight(grams) 1545g

In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This...

Since it was first published in 2005, A History of Thailand has been hailed as an authoritative, lively and readable account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. From the early settlements in the Chao Phraya basin to today,...

"Graham has crafted a compact, jewel-like resource for all who seek to understand the sources, evolution, impact, and value of Japanese aesthetics and design principles in our modern world." -Dr. Jane Schall, Sanders Sosland Curator of Modern and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992078621Author Samuel HawleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 684Imprint Conquistador PressPublisher Conquistador PressWeight(grams) 989g

Idris (Taff) James was a driver in the Royal Army Service Corps and one of the thousands of young British soldiers taken prisoner by the Japanese in early 1942/. He was ordered to become a medic by his Company Commander, who must have been a very shrewd...

Bill Hayton tells the story of how "China" came to think of itself as China-and what it means for our world today "[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism."-Foreign Policy In this compelling and highly-readable account, Hayton shows how China's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374601652Author Tessa HullsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint MCDPublisher MCDWeight(grams) 300g

This is a book about Sir John Cowperthwaite - the man Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman identified as being behind Hong Kong's remarkable post-war economic transformation. Despite there being some articles about him and effusive obituaries...

The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero...

India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, an Empire that needed a rail network to facilitate its exploitation and reflect its ambition. But, by building India's railways, Britain radically changed the nation and unwittingly planted the seed...

Informed Western understanding of Imperial Japan still often conjures up images of militarism, blind devotion to leaders, and fanatical pride in the country. But, as Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War reveals, Western imagination is often...

B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. It offers a scholarly critique of Hindu...

For Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has something of the significance that the French Revolution has for France: it is the point from which modern history begins. In this now classic work of Japanese history, the late W. G. Beasley offers a...

When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly...

Whisky Rising: The Second Edition is the most up-to-date, comprehensive resource on Japanese whisky. This fully updated guide by whisky authority and Japanese whisky expert Stefan Van Eycken takes you on a tour of some of the most coveted whiskies in the...